This is just a thread to satisfy my own curiosity. It states in the Dolphin wiki that it takes a faster PC to run N64 Virtual Console games than it does to run Wii and Gamecube games, and I was just wondering why. You would think it would be just the opposite since the N64 is an older less powerful system.

Emulating a game requires better hardware than running a game natively. When you're running an N64 game in Dolphin, you're running an emulator inside an emulator, so you need even better hardware than when only running one emulator.